Florida Senate - 2023                                    SB 7012
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Criminal Justice
       
       
       
       
       
       591-02325-23                                          20237012__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 119.071, F.S., which
    4         provides an exemption from public records requirements
    5         for the address of a victim of an incident of mass
    6         violence; removing the scheduled repeal of the
    7         exemption; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (o) of subsection (2) of section
   12  119.071, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         119.071 General exemptions from inspection or copying of
   14  public records.—
   15         (2) AGENCY INVESTIGATIONS.—
   16         (o) The address of a victim of an incident of mass violence
   17  is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   18  Constitution. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “incident
   19  of mass violence” means an incident in which four or more
   20  people, not including the perpetrator, are severely injured or
   21  killed by an intentional and indiscriminate act of violence of
   22  another. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “victim” means
   23  a person killed or injured during an incident of mass violence,
   24  not including the perpetrator. This paragraph is subject to the
   25  Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15
   26  and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2023, unless reviewed and
   27  saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   28         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2023.